The Nobel Peace Prize 1995
Awarded on: 1995-10-13
"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Born: 1957-00-00 in Pugwash, Canada
Field: International organization
Biography
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto in 1955.